Wetting of ring-shaped surface domains
| Autor: | Reinhard Lipowsky, W. Fenzl, Peter Lenz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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| Zdroj: | Europhysics Letters (EPL). 53:618-624 |
| ISSN: | 1286-4854 0295-5075 |
| DOI: | 10.1209/epl/i2001-00197-2 |
| Popis: | Wetting of ring-shaped surface domains is studied both theoretically and experi- mentally. The liquid channels covering these domains exhibit a volume-induced morphological transition from a homogeneous to a bulge state. The continuous symmetry of the low-volume channels is spontaneously broken by the transition to the high-volume regime. Therefore, an angular displacement of the bulge does not cost any (free) energy and the corresponding inter- face deformation represents a "Goldstone boson" which should be observable for domains in the micrometer regime. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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